Continuing the Crook County News Since 1884
We are still doing curbside and delivery if you would prefer not to come inside. If you are a master gardener, will you please contact the library? We would like to have some gardening programs, and need a master gardener to lead them. Thanks! Thanks to the generosity of Les Fullerton’s family, we now have the Les Fullerton Memorial that is paying for all InterLibrary Loan requests.
Displays: Small case: Lego Animals by the Tails & Tales Summer Reading Program Kids. Large case: Violet and Paul Smith’s music boxes. If you have a collection you would like to show to Sundance, please let us know! We have two locking cases that we would love to put your collection in for a month or so!
Library Programming: CEMETERY WALK: August 19 at Alva Cemetery. The walk starts at 6:30 p.m. and is free to the public. Meet at the cemetery for an evening of memories and stories of our early history. CROOK COUNTY LIBRARY BOARD meeting Wednesday, August 4, at 1 p.m. in Moorcroft. CROOK COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION BOARD meeting Wednesday, October 20, at 5:30 p.m. in Hulett. FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY is on hiatus for the summer. The next meeting is Tuesday, September 7, at 11:30 a.m.
New Fiction: THE BOOKSHOP OF SECOND CHANCES by Jackie Fraser. THE DROWNING KIND by Jennifer McMahon. THE EAGLE’S CLAW: A NOVEL OF THE BATTLE OF MIDWAY by Jeff Shaara.
New Non-Fiction: THE HILL WE CLIMB: An Inaugural Poem for the Country by Amanda Gorman. THE SOUL OF A WOMAN by Isabel Allende.
New Wyoming Room Fiction: THE ICE LION, Rewilding Reports #1, by Kathleen O’Neal Gear.
New Wyoming Room Non-Fiction: THE ARTIST’S FIELD GUIDE TO YELLOWSTONE: A Natural History by Greater Yellowstone’s Artists and Writers edited by Katie Shepherd Christiansen.
New DVDs: MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON starring James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, and Edward Arnold. THE HOURS starring Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, and Nicole Kidman.
New Young Adult: MONUMENT 14 by Emmy Laybourne.
New Junior Graphic Novel: DEAD MAX COMIX: THE DEADENING by Dana Sullivan.
New Junior Fiction: KITTY AND THE SKY GARDEN ADVENTURE by Paula Harrison. KITTY AND THE TIGER TREASURE by Paula Harrison.
New Picture Book: TEN LITTLE PUPPIES by Marian Harris.
New Early Reader: JACK BLASTS OFF! by Mac Barnett and Greg Pizzoli.